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with me rule research welcome to the program. people are preparing to be moved to safety in central russia where munitions have detonated at a military testing ground. by live right now we can cross to him and get the latest on this developing story. all right well we will i will not be crossing over to what he's put on i will be joining him in just a moment for now though greeks are furious and i'm going to michael's visit to athens or out on the street so despite a protest ban in many parts of the city there are reports of police are making preventative arrests and the german chancellor is seen as the power behind the policy bringing hardship and more tough austerity to the greek people sarah ferguson athens for us and i can join us live here on the program. just how much anger we're seeing in the streets of athens and just ahead of the visit i can see in the picture behind you there are lots and lots in attendance. thousands of

people from the city in fact here and unfortunately in the last few seconds literally we heard some take us off in one of the corners this thing tag no we've seen this before and it seems again you know really the needs can change say rapidly in one corner all syntagma you going to big gathering of people now and as he said over the last you may miss the facts and take us going off thousands of people who come out onto the streets as german chancellor angela merkel this is in the country she's meeting at the moment with prime minister somare but the. german chancellor herself by germany at this visit really cannot be underestimated at this point we were out on the street when we were talking to people she said that she was coming here to show solidarity with greece the thankfully the stoics measures ahead of the media besides the trunks of money that they're going to need another

bailout. and we were talking to the people that have done some talk going to say something back to you with the with the bank loose with the politicians they didn't feel like there's any so the guards see the people the knots really the sentiment that we seeing so many times the chance of the visiting the country it is the. worst lesson that she has seen here since the euro crisis. it is the new it is in the bag and it's been building this entire sun you've got to remember as well that the rhetoric from germany the rhetoric from some of these big strong erasing states really changed dramatically at the beginning of all of this police is very much it out of its own in the isolated situation where the measures seem to be more of the punishment that help the citizens this in their own states misses have just as does the country and see as desperate spiral of the steroids he says he said i mean things we need changing the name and some name in his thousands and thousands of

people have come out there were protest bans in place of course the last part of that the biggest things the great thing is that this regarded that they cannot see the have this a business that i mean the mood when you just say about ready at this stage where we're having some to take us to look there's not going to kind of tension roadside certainly not. just the palace the little. water heater when it comes to the issue of austerity for team you go there are certainly many who are who are worried for the german chancellor visit there only a six hour visit that i understand seven thousand offices a rooftop snipers antiterrorist you know so certainly a lot of action being put to try and look after the safety of charles so i go remarkable when it comes to her visit there any major expectations to come out of her for meetings where you are. they don't expect any major decisions to be made as he said this is more so slowly dying see it as that the government the putting

a huge emphasis on you know the positive outcomes of this that we were again as i said he was speaking to the people and he said you know we've been here before we seen these promises they've all been breaking what more can we expect now is still the perhaps there's going to be some discussion of course coming up is the next fail outranks that greece will need to keep itself like that again as we say caught in that austerity side. in the ankle on the streets today is very real and a lot of the language as well you make note though each security operation is going to we're going to show you again off to the corner where you can see the riot police or the lining of course the parliament that's thirty years too but today they've all say good night is on the receive got the helicopter going a their heads i mean the police presence is noticeably more than usual and that's really cause a lot of anger added to that that the protesters were told they weren't allowed to demonstrate peacefully as he says and as you can see they come out anyway at

absolutely anger as we said before what's been going on at the fact that she's visiting a lot of people asking why now why is this point as he said she hasn't visited since the euro crisis began a lot of people feel germany is responsible for the surveil starts he messes and you know chancellor merkel will be saying first chance today the very real effects of those are starting measures that are being of close in this country from the phone call right on to sorry for life and i think thanks. for the deepening crisis in a western europe is also sending a migrants in the opposite direction later on i'll tell you we go to ukraine to find out why people are returning home to make a better future for themselves. now thousands of people are preparing to be moved to safety in central russia where munitions have detonated at a military testing ground and let's cross over to aussie's printer all of us standing by live to give us the latest on this can you bring us up to speed peter

casualties or what's the official statement regarding all of this as well. but we've heard from local politicians in me or region who have said that there is no danger to the local population from this explosion that took place out the the army munitions dump forty kilometers away from the city of over. the statements. saying that this explosion was due to conventional weapons exploding that there was no chemical or nuclear weapons involved in the in the blast and that all of the local residents were at no risk whatsoever. there was a house when a small number of people evacuated from the immediate vicinity in the emergencies ministry is on the hunt should more people be needed to to move away from the from the site. now it does seem though that we are hearing that those no casualties no injuries amongst the civilian population however they have received quite a

a serious scare which is understandable when you think about the size and scale and sound of this explosion a huge booming blast ringing out gigantic plume of smoke and of course the shockwave that goes with these type of explosions all coming together to to leave them leave the local people out quite a bit little shaken now the job is underway though of finding out what exactly caused this explosion a military investigation has been started there's also a criminal case being opened into potential mishandling of weapons an ace the information coming out of the defense ministry though is telling us that all of their personnel are on injured and all accounted for now in the immediate aftermath of this explosion well we say pretty much harnick unveiling and for eyes online people posting on twitter and on other online sources that there had been military personnel injured and there's many military personnel remained unaccounted for as i say the latest from the defense ministry is that's just simply not true that was

hysteria following what was as i mentioned a very loud explosion now when it comes to incidents like this this isn't the first of its kind in russia in fact over the last three years there's been twenty such incidents involving military munitions dumps of this nature and in fact this particular facility saw incidents take place two incidents take place over the. the last few months which each resulted in two people being injured as they say there at the moment the news coming from the defense ministry is nobody has been injured and that all military personnel are accounted for. but the latest on the story thank you. live from moscow this is r.t. the white house republican hopeful mitt romney has called for a more aggressive foreign policy in the middle east which would include arming the al-qaeda linked syrian rebels the democrats so have hit back saying romney's stance

alexa vision and consistency and his guy nature can has the latest. mitt romney accused president obama of quote sitting on the sidelines end of quote and not being aggressive enough on syria mr romney suggested actively arming the rebels with weapons that can bring down aircraft on the wall hangs he said quote the greater tragedy of it all is that we're missing a story opportunity to win new friends who share our values in the middle east and its world but mitt romney's other remarks suggested that maybe he doesn't really care about whose hands the weapons would end up in because the objective that he stayed it was to defeat assad seeing it as a stepping stone to iran iran is sending arms to assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them we should be working no less vigorously to our international partners to support the many syrians who would deliver that defeat to iran rather than sitting on the sidelines so basically mitt romney suggested taking

advantage of the crisis in syria to fulfill the goal of defeating iran. but straightforward remark basically expressing the same opportunistic approach to foreign policy with the u.s. has had for many years while obama campaign called romney reckless and amateurish when it comes to foreign policy so far the administration has stopped short of directly arming the rebels although washington is coordinating the efforts of their allies in the region that is saudi arabia qatar turkey which are providing weapons to the rebels one way or another but those allies are saying that they only provide smaller weapons that they would love to send heavy artillery but they don't have the green light from washington for that because reportedly the administration fears that the weapons might end up in the hands of terrorist experts say one of the reasons why the rebels are not settling down for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an intervention and everybody now understands without a negotiated solution bloodshed will continue. watching all of the people's choice

. giving the west. as well as reelected for the fourth time as president we look at . the country. and it will be back. on the march under god these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reacting march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same what my fellow prisoners around

me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia it took them years to get their summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it have guinea discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his reactors now receiving to us from all over the world to show them what it was like when these two are you going to stop it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future. it's a monument to want to czarist russia cruellest chapters. the city serves as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he

lived here there's a study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so. much of history to the rest of russia's particularly. the. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm wrong here is a hero in his homeland but portrayed as a bogeyman by western governments and the election triumph chavez in venezuela it's remarkable a fourth time now that he's been put back in office though his his policies her

continue to polarize certain opinions that he's losing careful reports the way he uses the nation's oil wealth will ensure that he'll remain a thorn certainly in the side of washington. six years on let's go to trial that may be at odds with the liberation of the. one party that one treats here that is not only here for you to join in on. it. it's a victory that supporters say has implications far beyond this country's borders talley's chavez is the father of south america all the presidents who are friends among each other latin america understand the understand the significance of chavis for the world that's rising up from its knees for the world of equality for the world without jimmy a vampire without a gemini if you wish and that's precisely what makes many western governments nervous venezuela could be an example for other countries i mean here you have

a country that is saying that the polarization of wealth which we see not just in one country not just in two countries but globally is completely toxic and must be addressed and that there must be a redistribution of wealth this is antithetical to what's been known as the washington consensus so in that sense the. president chavez and is as a threat a threat that doesn't just hurt washington's influence but its coffers under chavis venezuela has refused to act as a market for u.s. based private investment and no longer can u.s. oil firms rely on the country as a stable source of cheap crude venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves chavez has promised to ramp up production and slash this country's dependence on u.s. markets by doubling exports to asia according to the president and that is why he represents a threat to the west. from the economic point of view we have the largest petroleum

reserves in the world when the world runs out of oil and many countries which possess the majority of reserves were me i had you on my toes or russia iran saudi arabia iraq and anywhere. it's black gold could account for the vilification of chavez in the west after all just a year after he took office in one thousand nine hundred nine chavez toward the middle east to lobby key opec members to drive oil prices higher but he also provided subsidized oil to quba bella bruce nicaragua and syria countries whose relations with the west aren't exactly ideal for critics that is well under chavez is a terrifying prospect. i think chavez has mostly criticized for his foreign policy first for breaking relations with traditional trade partners of venezuela such as colombia and the us and second for political alliances with countries which are considered as non-democratic and even belligerent in their foreign policy such as cuba and even more so iran. chavez says his worldview is just one that the west is

going to have to get used to. it was said that in american. history. rules against new liberalism twenty years ahead of the europe. which is happening now will it did not need. a world power yet. next six years. are. over on our website all right now that about clamping down on. civil rights finds a new way to figure out if you. before. by asking questions about human rights. or you are.

joining. with a course in a bad romance. used to be migrant workers from ukraine with one in ten citizens heading west in search of a better life but as the european economy stumbles from crisis to crisis many ukrainians are returning home. with them. reports on the turning of the tide. and goes to villages with empty houses and few people on the street a common sight for western ukraine and it's not the result of any disaster. almost every family in the west of ukraine has a member working abroad ever since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. ukraine has been one of the main suppliers of cheap labor force into the european union as it stands over four million ukrainians are currently working in europe

that's every tenth citizen of the country but this is changing yuri worked in spain for almost a decade before escaping the financial crisis and resettling back home at times he indulges in some gastronomically. and make spanish style salami at home but yuri says there is no going back to. i made good use of the money i earned there i bought several stores and currently lease them i also bought a house twenty five kilometers from laval of if i stayed in spain i would have to work like a slave to earn something here i can enjoy life many of my friends who stayed in spain and now out of work and planning to come back to. and he's far from the only one the real estate market in western ukraine is seeing a boom in property sales all thanks to those running away from the collapsing euro zone and that i think

a lot of people they may have thought of buying houses in the e.u. but you seen how the crisis playings those countries and on returning home of all real estate properties sold last year almost a quarter of the buyers were returned migrants muesli by two to three room apartments with up to one thousand euros in the last two three months alone more than a thousand families booked flats here which makes around one hundred million euros worth of investment into property in just one of ukrainian regions the overall sum of european money ending up in ukrainian spoke it is even more astonishing last year ukraine was able to receive up to seven. years of dollars from the ukrainian currently working abroad. and that's coming from the country's worst affected by the financial crisis spain italy and portugal where many businesses have grown realigned on migrant ukrainian workers you might think their return home

should benefit both sides but in reality economists believe this may spell trouble for ukraine amount of remittances we usually receive from the me is going to go down from seven billion i would expect that this year should be on the level of five b.n. they tional supply of labor coming from e.u. conscious to ukraine is needed to be supported and it's additional pressure for the ukrainian budget which is quite difficult to do when you have a limited amount of resources but yuri says even if the labor market goes into meltdown it would not be as bad as it could have been if you stayed in spain the money he brought back has made him completely self-sufficient and immune from being and wanted either at home or a brooch. skee altie reporting from ukraine. so i'm going to talk business there's no good to see you today the international

monetary fund are losing faith in the global economy that's right said to lower the testament for next year's global growth to three point six percent from a previous three point nine percent one of the biggest downgrades was to the u.k. count the economy which the i.m.f. now expects to shrink by point four percent this year the figures for russia didn't change much it now stands at three point seven percent for this year and three point eight percent for twenty thirty and obviously european markets are reacting to the news we're going to see the numbers in just a second and here they are there was another downgrade on tuesday moody's sloshed cyprus by three notches to the negative watched month moscow promised to help the island which is now seeking up to twenty billion euro and they add to the dispute in the russian the british oil joint venture t.n.t. b.p. has a new twist now the russian coal miners eight are considering selling their house

in the company either to a strategic investor or the an i p o but this would happen only if b.p. sells its part to ross now something the russian church leaders would not be too happy about at the same time a are is not giving up the plans to actually in the largest state in the n.p.t. by buying shares from the british partners but b.p. says it will keep searching for a buyer or a regardless of the age are. earlier the british firm initiated talks to sell its stake now it take a look at the russian markets what we're seeing there is pretty have to gains the r.t.s. at the moment is putting on around two thirds of the sounds they're managing to recover from a monday's a loss says that and on the currency barca. well let's see some numbers there and the euro as we're seeing is actually setting value to the u.s. dollar and the bull is saying pretty strong gains through the courts. and that's

all the latest from the business desk henri i'll see you back in fifteen minutes now a very good thank you. just a few minutes or an author will be talking to us sociologist craig calhoun now about the lessons to be learned from the recent arab anger over an american film deemed insulting to the prophet mohammad. a mission free cretaceous free store charges free. range month free. three stooges free. food free blow against quality video for your media projects a free video dog r.t. dot com. by horse. by tractor. by car for the road.

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the u.s. government has been taken by surprise by the recent wave of anti-american violence one fold in thrall to muslim countries following its role in the arab revolutions washington was expecting more gratitude does support from the nations involved but they do you ask have sufficient cultural and social understanding of the region and on the societies of the countries they work into vinnie to discuss that not only that we are now joined by sociologist and the heart of london school of economics craig thank you very much for being with us my pleasure so what do you think was the kind of miscalculation of the u.s. government people in the united states and in the west generally were enthusiastic and imagined it was all about you it was about facebook it was about tweets on twitter and it was about the definition of democracy it is common in the west but in fact it was also about strengthening different countries trying to establish our

rights for a wide range of people not only those were some. the tick to the west but the whole population the americans who responded in the first place were indeed taken by surprise and when we say did they know we have to ask do we mean by they did some experts working in parts of the universities in the united states or in intelligence or no more than some politicians of course i think that the politicians trying to understand this needed to listen to a wider range of american experts as well as to the world and the people in the region they have a middle east and listening to those people not enough and talking about who we've been hearing that from hillary clinton we've been hearing this frustration from an american secretary of state she has sat why and how could that happen in the country we helped liberate i think here you're talking about libya.